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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 192).

SURVEY SEAPLANE. MALARIA RESEARCH.

NON-STOP FROM PENANG TO RANGOON.

APPEAL FOR THE ROSS INSTITUTE.

The "Straits Echo' of Septem-half of the Rosa Institute and er 13 reports:

LAUGHTER IN WHITEHALL.

Lt-Col. John Atkinson, D.S.O., B.F, writes in John o Lo don's Weekly":---

THE CHINA MAIL,

„APPEAL OF CONDEMNED `MAN DISMISSED.

letter to Newport, Mon, as New-scarcely a testimonial to Uncle JACKSON MURDER. port Monday. In due course it Jacob. "You will note," writes a came back through the Dead correspondent, "that I have ap- THE HUMOUR OF THE CIVIL Letter Office, and on being inter-pointed the Controller to receive

.SERVICE.

rogated somewhat sarcastically the money on my behalf. In case by her chief as to whether she he cannot do this for me, I appoint had ever heard of such a place as my Uncle Jacob for the business,

Rangoon, Sept. 7. Newport Monday, she replied; but I prefer the Controller." The High Court to-day dismiss- "No, sir, but I've heard of When a woman depositor in the ed the appeal of the Burmese who Sheffield Wednesday,"

Savings Bank marries it is neces- was sentenced to death in con- The early days of the Ministry |sary that she should acquaint the nection with the Jackson murder. of Pensions witnessed the receipt | Controller in order to have her case. of some very quaint letters from name altered in the official re- soldiers' relatives. Here are a cords. One lady did this in the few examples

following manner: "I am mar ried and wish to carry on as be- fore."

The Duchess of Portland on be-

Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Visits to Penang by flying Putney Heath, S.W.15, of which achines are few and far between she is President, Broadcasted from A happy hunting-ground for nd whenever news is received of Nottingham recently, the following | those in search of humour in the he arrival of any aeroplane there being part of her message:- Civil Service is certainly among 3 always some mild excitement, "I am appealing to-night for the lower or junior grades. That specially among the native portion support for work which, although of the higher ranks is, with one f our cosmopolitan population, not popularly appreciated, is, with- or two brilliant exceptions, too nd yesterday morning was no ex-out doubt, of the greatest import stately and dignified: it is the option to the rule. The news of ance to the development of the humour of the Athenæum and be arrival here yesterday of the British Empire. You think of the the Episcopal Bench. The great

ir Survey Company's seaplane Tropice as unhealthy and uncom- which was announced In our yes fortable areas. That is quite true, middle class of the Service, on the erday morning's Issue resulted in but on investigation you will find other hand, is too serious and too he presence of many people in the that a large proportion of your in- respectable to countenance any cinity of the water front to wit- come comes directly or indirectly such quality, and when it does hess the landing on the sea. The from business done in or with the exist it is of the heavy variety. dsplanade and Weld Quay sea Troples. It is from there that our Fortunately, however, there is fronts had their quota of anxious tea, coffee, cocoa, rice, fruits, | still fruitful ground to be found pectators and although they were and spices come to 15, and amongst those who crowd rewarded with sceing the seaplane | much raw material for our the lower rungs of the hover over Penang for about an manufacturers. I am sure that

ladder, promotion hour, they were in 1 way dis everyone desirek that the

of laughter sppointed for the machine landed native races governed by us in whom the love at the mouth of the Prai River these unhealthy areas shall benefit has not been quenched by age, shortly before noon. From the by every discovery in, medical dignity, and respectability. early hours of the morning a keen science that will promote their lookout was kept of the southern welfare and lessen preventable horizon. Both Pulau mau Light sickness and death, and that our House and Fort Cornwallis Signal sons and daughters, who work in Station were given instructions to the Tropies, shall not return, as health, due to malaria and other tropical diseases. The greatest enemies of our Empire are tropical diseases. Several million deaths every year are caused directly or indirectly by malaria, and the death-rate in malarial countries is double that in which there is no malaria. The Ross Institute for Research and Hospital for Tropical Diseasesvis situated in ideal aur roundings at Putney Heath, and is

and

in

My husband has gone away to the mind sweepers.

In accordance with instructions

I have given birth to a daughter on the 1st April.

In answer to your letter, I have given birth to twins. Hoping this will be satisfactory.

My son was born and brought up in this house in answer to your letter.

Rangoon, July 1. Of the five [An earlier message stated: Burmese accused in the Jackson murder case at the Sessions at And lastly comes the story of death on a charge of murder, and Toungoo, one was sentenced to the old lady who was written to the rest to one year's rigorous by the Old Age Pension Officer with regard to her claim to pen- of causing grievous hurt, with | imprisonment' each, on a chargo sion and who replied as follows: common intention.].

"I am very sorry I made such a mistake in my first letter, forget- ting my maiden name which was Brown. I was born in 1847 or

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CHURCH NOTICES.

A CHARGE, OF ONE- DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICE" UNDER

HEADING

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, TONG KONG

September 25, 1927;

-15th Sunday After Trinity. Holy Communion (8 a.m.) Matins (11 a.m.)

Preacher: Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Litany for the Sick (12 noon). Evensong (6 p.m.)

Preacher: Rev. G. F.. Stopford,

C.F.

Thursday, September 29, S. Michael and all' Angels.

Holy Communion 7:45 a.m.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

You have changed my little boy 1848. I was very much worried SHOOTING TRAGEDY.The First Church of Christ, Scient-

into a little girl. Will it make any difference?

The stories in connection with the G.P.O. are legion, but per- haps the best of all is the one where a lady complained of the continued carelessness of the postal authorities.

"For in- stance," she wrote, "my husband has had to go to Manchester on from him this morning it bore the Blackpool postmark."

at the time."

CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM' EASES PAIN.

SUDDEN DEATH

INVERNESS-SHIRE.

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IN

Inverness, Sept. 6. A search party found the body of Mr. Capper, who was a mem- ber of a shooting party at Farra- line House, lying beside the body Strath Errick district.

The exertion of dragging the deer apparently had overtaxed his heart.

(Branch of The Mother Church,

ist, in Boston, Mass, USA) Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station.

Sunday Service 11.15 am. Subject: "Reality."

Wednesday Evening Meeting at 5.80 o'clock

Reading Room at above address,

Tuesday and Friday 10 am, to 12 Noon.

report the arrival. It was not until is so often the case, broken in try in their reports to follow what) business, but when I got a letter painful spots. It is penetrating, start of a deer which he had shot in the open-

10.26 yesterday morning that the subdued droning of the propellers was heard and all cyes were turn ed towards the south. Although the machine came from the direc- tion of Taiping she was not seen until she was over the Penang Hills travelling eastwards.

The droning noise increased and at 10.30 the seaplane Vas firet Bighted. She flew over Penang for about an hour stripping from east

Official Correspondence. One cannot but smile at the way in which some of the hum- bler members of the profession they consider is the correct style of official correspondence. Here a few examples from the Post Office:-

are

With reference to Mr. Brown's accident, I was opening bundles of letters and also Mr. Brown when he cut his hand.

I am now wearing a pair of trousers which, I am told, is a breach of your rules.

Didn't Trust "Uncle." The following letter received at the Central Money Order Office is

Rub Chamberlain's Pain Balm on the up the circulation which carries away the congestion and pressure that causes the pain. That is how it helps rheumatle pains, lumbago, backache, neuralgio, swollen, aching joints and muscles. Sold and recommended overy- where."

י.

'Deceased's only son is on ser- vice in India.

Monday and Thurndow 5 to 7 p.m. The Public is cordially invited to attend the services and visit the Reading Room.

GIANT FOKKER ARMY BOMBING MONOPLANE MAKES FIRST TEST FLIGHT The giant Fokker Army bombing monoplane, one of four ordered by the U. B. Government from dif- ferent airplane manufacturers, passes its first trial Hight successfully. The huge plano has a 90 foot wing spread, weight when loaded for military use 16,350 pounds, has a carrying capacity of twenty bombs and is powered by two 600 H. P. Curtiss motors.

HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD

AND

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.

to west and vice versa in ปี southerly direction and just before moon she gradually descended from an altitude of 6,000 feet and flew from north to south and back again. at a very low altitude. The letters G-AAS could be distinctly seen. She made in the direction of the

Province and landed on the first occasion at the mouth of the Pral River. After taxing 'for short while she took-off again and landed for the second time at almost the same spot and taxied Into the river to a buoy near the cable across the river, where she was moored prior to departure this morning on a non-stop flight to Rangoon,

A Reliable Machine.

An officer from the Harbour Department boarded her and took a report of her arrival.

She is a De Haviland 9 built during the war and is fitted out as

I beg to report that in accord- ance with Rule 12, I met with an ac lent on Friday last.

concentrating on medical research work in the prevention and treat- ment of tropical diseases, and striving to stamp out malaria.

fruitful soures Πhumour Last year the Ross Institute was are the reasons given for late ar- officially opened by H.R.H. theral at the office, extending from

Prince of Wales.

of

the usual "Train Inte" to the off- "Sir Ronald Ross, who when a major in the Indian Medical Ser-cial who gave as his excuse that "the tram I came in was 80 full vice, in 1898, in Calcutta made one of the greatest discoveries in that I had to walk.". A good medical science, which has saved incalculable numbers Ross, after prolonged research, discovered that if the female mog- quito sucked the blood of an in- dividual with malarla it drew into its stomach with the blood minute parasites that abound in malarial patients. These underwent deve lopment in the mosquito which be came a carrier and spread the

disense. The secret of malaria

story in this connection comes lives. from the Customs Excise Depart- ment, The hero was a happy youthful officer of that service whose weight ran somewhere to about eighteen stone, and who had been ordered to remove from one town to another, a distance of twenty miles. allowed him for the journey, but A day was it was more than a week before and its prevention, hidden for

he turned up at his new office. ages, was thus revealed. Now you "Where have you been all this A scaplane. Her angine is a Sid- will understand why this Institute time?" not unnaturally inquired dely-Puma of 240 horse-power was named after such a wonderful his chief, "You've taken eight She came here sometime last year man. It is a lasting memorial to days to come twenty miles!"* Vincent, who was superseded in one who has done so much for your "Sir," replied the delinquent, nation and humanity. It has no looking down at his own expan- May last by Mr. S. H. G. Trower, endowment, and I most earnestly sive girth, "you forget that great who has since been in charge of appeal for your support, however bodies move slowly." her in carrying out aerial survey small It may be. I also appeal to mostly in the vicinity of Port those who can afford to do so, and Swettenham and parts of tho

surely they must be very amerous, F.M.S., including Kuala Kangsar. to give us their generous support. She has proved herself a very re- We need a quarter of a million liable machine and has given her pounds as endowment, and funds to pilot and observer the minimum of build more laboratories, additional dull offices. trouble during the period she has wards and private been out here. She is capable of patients. doing 90 miles an hour,

and was then piloted by Mr.

Learnt His Lesson!

The written explanations of the junior staff for faults of omis- sion or commission do much to lighten the gloom of some of our A telegraph mes- for senger-boy, asked to give a Your help to this In- written explanation of the delay She hopped off the water at Port people. The Institute gives facil-gir I went straight there and stitute would benefit millions of in delivering a telegram, wrote: Swettenham shortly before $ ties to medical men and others o'clock yesterday morning and from the Tropfes to carry out re-back and will not let it occur.

rooms

flying at an altitude of 8,000 feet searches in tropical diseases. had smooth salling all the time

Antil she landed in Penang. The

ather, except for the fact that

became rather hazy at times,

is all that could be wished for Part of a fossilised reptile of

d doing about 75 miles an hour the Secondary Period has been

e took under three-houra to cover found near Buluwayo, Rhodesia.

e distance from Port Swettenham.

10 courBa

during WAB,

the

3jority of the journey, along the

ast from Port Swettenham`,to

'again."

On another occasion a lady complained to the G.P.O. of the bad language used by two Post Office employee working on a pole outside her house: The written explanation furnished by the workmen shows the moderate and restrained language used by Civil Servants even under intense pro- vocation. The explanation ran as follows

Sir-Harry was working on

mut whence she made inland to fight to Rangoon, his place being arda Taiping and took some taken by Mr. E. W. Bishop who the top of the pole and by acci otographs and surveys of Bukit arrived in Penang by the 8.5 dent he let some of the hot lead antang. This over she steered "Klang":" or Penang and arrived here with Mr. Trower who is only 27 years run down my neck. I looked up ut any Incident.

old served in the British Navy and said, "You really must be A Young Aeronaut,

during the last two years of the more careful, Harry After being safely moored her Great War and then he joined the But for brevity, I like best the Agines were attended to and a Royal Air Force in which he re-story of the postman who was resh supply of fuel was taken in mained for four years prior to called upon to explain a whole or the non-stop flight to Kangoon. coming out with the Air Survey drop of irregularities coming ker Filot, Mr. Trower, came to Company, Ltd. He holds a Short, under many and varied headings. {wn and transacted all the neces- Service Commission in the RAF., With a stroke of real gehina, he lary business and returned to Frat. that is after four years he was bracketed all the questions to- He and his observer were enter- transferred to the Reserve. He gether and wrote against them ained to dinner by the representa- joined the Air Burvey Company in the one comprehensive word, Live of Messrs. C. C. Wakefield and April last. While out here he has

Drunk

Company at the Runnymede Hotel dong Photographing and sun Unknow laat night work mostly at Fort Swettenham

In hia flight from Port Swetten- and Kuala Kangsar.""*

LEE

un o the Fair.

TO BE HELD AT

GARDENS

on OCTOBER 1st, 1927

from 3.30 p.m. to 12.00 midnight.

Do you want Music?

There will be three Military Bands,

Massed Pipers, and

"1812" played by the Massed Bands.

Fireworks at 11.00 p.m.

Do you want to Dance?

There will be Dancing to

Whitey Smith and His Majestic Music Masters.

from 8.00 p.m. to 12.00 midnight.

Do you want Food?

There will be Open air Tea Gardens,

Chinese Chow and the Kandy Kids Stall.

Do you want Fun ?-

but space for

Britain

Of stq Yes the girl typist

ham to Panang Mr. Trower had asThe seaplane is due to leave there are me

his observer.Mr. C., H. Thorne, Penang for Hangoen” at daylight|bids giving more than one.

hoz will be returning to Port to-day There will be no serial | this case the young lady_official

and will not do the survey of Penang

had been rullofaaddressing

THEN COME TO THE FAIR.